The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced an IoT competition, dubbed “FTC IoT Home Inspector Challenge”, promising $25,000 to whomever presents a viable solution for automatically guarding or patching IoT software vulnerabilities. The proposed tool is meant to help consumers keep their home network smart devices safe from hackers, to prevent them from being […]
The malware behind last month’s massive distributed denial-of-service attack in the U.S. appears to be losing its potency. Ironically, hackers are to blame for diluting its power. The malware known as Mirai — which is now available on the internet — has become a bit too popular in the hacking community, according to security firm Flashpoint. […]
Recently I had the opportunity to attend the Changellenge Cup Russia 2015 student project competition. I was on the panel of judges for one of the sections. But today we will not speak of the contest itself, but of some of the problems we discussed at the engineering section. The participants had to elaborate use […]
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